Are you fucking retarded? Drawing their alphabet or adding 3+4? There's something called a pencil and paper. You don't need $500+ and $300 to buy an iPad and case to do that. There was interactive learning long before an iPad, and the way a school district just spent $800+ on there is just plain ludicrous. There is nothing to even make a case for it, let alone justify it. Even if I were among the 7% of computer users that are either Adobe users, or technologically inept, instead of the 2% users who usually dualboots Windows and Linux, (even if I started that fairly recently) I would have to have an IQ of a few points over what is needed to physically run my body to think that it's worth it to buy iPads for 3 YEAR-OLDS. Seriously, even for special-ed people, buy a $75 dollar dell desktop and run Linux or XP on it. It's way, WAY, cheaper, and in the long run will teach them more, because running Linux actually requires you to think about what you are doing, rather than just click your way randomly through menus. Trust me, I know. I have plenty of problems with Debian right now because I barely know how to use the console, and thus, am not capable of doing much.
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Are you fucking retarded? Drawing their alphabet or adding 3+4? There's something called a pencil and paper. You don't need $500+ and $300 to buy an iPad and case to do that. There was interactive learning long before an iPad, and the way a school district just spent $800+ on there is just plain ludicrous. There is nothing to even make a case for it, let alone justify it. Even if I were among the 7% of computer users that are either Adobe users, or technologically inept, instead of the 2% users who usually dualboots Windows and Linux, (even if I started that fairly recently) I would have to have an IQ of a few points over what is needed to physically run my body to think that it's worth it to buy iPads for 3 YEAR-OLDS. Seriously, even for special-ed people, buy a $75 dollar dell desktop and run Linux or XP on it. It's way, WAY, cheaper, and in the long run will teach them more, because running Linux actually requires you to think about what you are doing, rather than just click your way randomly through menus. Trust me, I know. I have plenty of problems with Debian right now because I barely know how to use the console, and thus, am not capable of doing much.